Mobinil in Talks With Telecom Egypt On Interconnection Fees

Ashraf Halim, Vice President Commercial of Egyptian Company for Mobile Services (Mobinil) – (EMOB.CA), stated that Mobinil is conducting talks with Telecom Egypt (ETEL.CA) in order to settle the current crisis of interconnection fees.

He pointed out that, Mobinil still addressing National Telecommunication Regulatory Authority (NTRA) to obtain license of passing international calls as well as fiber optic network.

Worth mentioning that Mobinil has allocated EGP 1.25 billion for the second half of the current year in order to upgrade its services offered for its clients.

Ashraf Halim told yesterday to Amwal Al Ghad that the company had allocated EGP 2.5 billion for the beginning of 2012 so as to promote services and networks.

“Mobinil has spent the half during the H1/2012 which ended last June.” Halim noted

“Mobinil will focus on promoting its networks, in the remote areas in particular, as pursuant to a firm plan which BoD has devised earlier. The plan shall provide the best coverage for all Mobinil subscribers.”

“Mobinil is working on having more subscribers through offering new offers and services.”